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Wish List 2009

// January 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life's Happenings

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A  new year. A new list. I sure have sky high gadget goals as far as 2009 is concerned. I want more of innovative products than cliched glossy looking over priced products. Understandable that the Mumbai terror attacks and the globad economic recession have hhaunted everyone. My wishlist is fairly full of all the technologies that I would want to see. I share it with you in the hope that we have something in common.

1. The Open Alliance System with 14 new inductees include Sony Ericsson, Asustec and Vodafone, which looks ot heat up the competition in the market with Google’s Android powering many new phones. Even Palm is coming up with a potential iPhone and Android killer. Sweet! In the end we consumers will be left with more choices as manufacturers wont stop innovating as they need their products to be the best.

2. I want notebooks with better battery life.  My Dell runs out of juice in 4 hrs.

3. I want manufacturers to stop the megapixel wars on the phones. Anyways the current 8MP phones fail t

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The Palm 'Pre'

// January 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gadgets

Okay…Ive been closely following the CES going on right now. The one thing that i found most interesting is the new phone unveiled by Palm. Ive never been a fan of Palm phones, but this one sure did interest me. I found a proper review on Yahoo!. Here it goes :

Palm was under serious pressure to hit a home run at CES today—and boy, did it deliver. Running Palm’s gorgeous (if belated) new platform, dubbed WebOS, the touchscreen Pre could well be Palm’s savior, and perhaps its biggest hit.So, as for the Pre itself (due on Sprint in the first half of this year, no pricing yet): It’s got a big, 3.1-inch 480 by 320 touch display (yes, with multitouch and an accelerometer), weighs in at 4.8 ounces, and comes with a curved, slide-out keypad. Yes, it does Wi-Fi and 3G (EV-DO Rev. A, to be exact), as well as GPS (with turn-by-turn directions courtesy of TeleNav), stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a removable battery.

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